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Ice Age
- Game Boy Advance
- Price: $20
- Genre: Action/Adventure
Common Sense Media says
Kids will tire quickly of ho-hum game.
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QUALITY
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that players have to kill a lot of animals, including some that aren't aggressive. The violence is cartoonish.
What's it about?
ICE AGE is a platform game, based on the movie of the same name, in which the player walks, runs, and jumps across 10 horizontally scrolling levels. Depending on the level, you control Manny, a lumbering woolly mammoth ridden by an infant, or Sid, a speedy sloth.
When enemies get in the way, such as saber-tooth tigers and dodo birds, the player must kill them. The mammoth can strike with its tusks or throw nuts, the sloth has a "spin attack." It's cartoonish violence in which defeated enemies simply disappear. The goal is to collect as many nuts as possible on the way to finishing ten levels.
Is it any good?
The game is easy to learn and controls are simple, but gameplay quickly becomes repetitive. There's no room for creativity or striking out in a new direction: You simply follow the path laid out for you. You can take your time and proceed at your own pace in the mammoth levels, but the sloth levels scroll along quickly. If the player can't keep up and is nudged off the edge of the scrolling screen, he loses a life, which will prove frustrating for younger children.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about how other animals are dispatched. Do you find it strange that you need to kill animals that don't seem threatening?
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I got tired of it quickley, but children might still enjoy it.
To tell the truth, it was really boring. But while I still liked it, it was enjoyable. Even though the game didn't put that much efort in it, I still gave it an ON rating and put it as 3 stars. It can give kids a really good message. While playing the game, kids do problum solving. They have to figure out how to get to the cave by using there brain. You really got to think on this game in order to win it. There are three characters. Each of them can do things that the others can't. They have to help each other to make it to the cave. You can play each of the three characters at each time.
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the game is very nice just not good for my age group besides that its very injoyable
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| Platforms: | Game Boy Advance |
| Available online? | Not available online |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure |
| Developer: | UbiSoft |
| Release date: | November 11, 2002 |
| Price: | $20 |
| ESRB rating: | E |
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